STAMFORD, USA: In the second quarter of 2009, worldwide server shipments dropped 28 per cent year-on-year, while revenue fell 29.4 percentage points year-on-year, according to Gartner Inc.
Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president, Gartner, said: “The server market remains constrained on a worldwide level. Server sales have felt the impact of reduced budgets since the last half of 2008 and the second quarter of this year remained in the negative.”
“No server segment was immune from the economic woes. x86-based servers fell 27.4 per cent in units and 25.7 per cent in revenue. RISC/Itanium Unix servers also were impacted in quarterly results with drops of 40.6 per cent in units and 31.4 per cent in vendor revenues,” Hewitt said.
The server market was negatively impacted in all geographic regions. Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) fell the most significantly with a 31.9 per cent decline in shipments and 35.8 per cent in vendor revenue. The effects from the dollar exchange rate to local currencies had an additional negative influence. Asia/Pacific felt the least downward pressure on units with a 17.2 per cent unit decline, and it also had the least vendor revenue impact for the period with a 15 per cent decrease.
IBM continued to lead the worldwide server market based on revenue (see Table 1). The company posted just over $3 billion in server vendor revenue for a total share of 32.5 per cent worldwide for the second quarter of 2009. This share was up 1 per cent from the same period last year. While IBM retained the No. 1 spot, it sustained a 27.1 per cent revenue decline, with all of its server brands posting year-on-year decreases.
All of the top five global vendors, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, and Sun, had double-digit declines in revenue for the second quarter of 2009.
Table 1 Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, 2Q09 (U.S. Dollars)
Company
2Q09
Revenue
2Q09 Market Share (%)
2Q08
2Q08 Market Share (%)
2Q08-2Q09 Growth (%)
IBM
3,146,461,260
32.5
4,318,956,465
31.5
-27.1
Hewlett-Packard
2,797,312,338
28.9
4,003,027,837
29.2
-30.1
Dell Inc.
1,293,178,966
13.3
1,623,285,218
11.8
-20.3
Sun Microsystems
1,041,672,106
10.8
1,633,955,195
11.9
-36.2
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens
321,752,146
3.3
492,821,856
3.6
-34.7
Other Vendors
1,089,310,265
11.2
1,656,883,335
12.1
-34.3
Total
9,689,687,081
100.0
13,728,929,906
-29.4
Of the top ten vendors in server shipments worldwide, seven posted double-digit decreases in units for the second quarter.
The least impacted server segment was x86 blade servers which fell 23.6 per cent in units and 13.6 per cent in vendor revenue for the second quarter.
Table 2 Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipment Estimates, 2Q09 (Units)
Shipments
522,447
31.0
706,724
30.2
-26.1
402,187
23.9
577,163
24.7
-30.3
226,570
13.4
308,835
13.2
-26.6
63,412
3.8
96,510
4.1
48,819
2.9
61,077
2.6
-20.1
422,371
25.1
590,468
25.2
-28.5
1,685,806
2,340,777
-28.0
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